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NEW DELHI: Delhi-based real estate company Bhasin Group has tied up with Singapore-based Andover Leisure Pte to build a 100,000 sq ft aquarium - which would be bigger than Singapore's Sentosa and Atlanta's Georgia Aquariums. It will come up in a mall run by the company in Greater Noida . The aquarium, to be titled Blue Planet, is expected to cost $9 million (Rs 45 crore). The joint venture company executing the aquarium project will import over 5,000 species of fish from as far as South Africa, South America and Australia, apart from collecting the best Indian varieties.

KOLKATA: West Bengal's future is agriculture and industry and performance will prove that the state is at the top, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today. "Saying things outside will not work. Performance will prove that our West Bengal is number one," Banerjee said at the inauguration of the golden jubilee celebrations of West Bengal Cold Storage Association. "Agriculture is our pride and industry is our future. Bengal's future is agriculture and industry," she said, adding that the government was against forcible acquisition of land but has land banks for the needs of the industry.

KOLKATA: West Bengal's future is agriculture and industry and performance will prove that the state is at the top, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today. "Saying things outside will not work. Performance will prove that our West Bengal is number one," Banerjee said at the inauguration of the golden jubilee celebrations of West Bengal Cold Storage Association. "Agriculture is our pride and industry is our future. Bengal's future is agriculture and industry," she said, adding that the government was against forcible acquisition of land but has land banks for the needs of the industry.

The Chinese philosopher Lao Zi once said, "Governing a great nation is much like cooking a small fish. " Chilli fish? Mustard fish? Our fish? Their fish? Ok, our fish. When it comes to food relations between India and China, the first thing that springs to mind is the sub-continental avatar of Chinese cuisine. This despite the fact that the food indi(a)genised by the wandering Hakka Chinese people, everyone agrees, bears little resemblance to anything cooked in the vast stretches of land that lie to India's north.

They are armed and can be dangerous. Renowned as alligators of the fish world, a Hollywood movie named after them said, Piranha: Terror, Horror and Death. But these fierce creatures have become the next level of adventure tourism. Today, no trip to the Amazons is complete without Piranha watching or Piranha fishing. And, if you are really keen, then a swim with these ferocious beauties is the extreme. Make sense? Well to tour operators all across South America it does. That's why any adventure related with these omnivorous species, rates high on any Amazon tour menu.

Absence of predators can do strange things to creatures. One fearless generation after another over millennia, pigeons can lose their power of flight; grow larger than the tamest turkeys, only to be derided as Dodos! Alas, giving up fear also opened the doors of extinction for the hapless birds when the sailor and his stoat arrived on their magic island. These thoughts of the Dodo's demise arise as your columnist is feeding the holy-river carps of Sringeri at the Tunga-Bhadra confluence in Karnataka.

It is the place to go to if you are even remotely like me. My mornings are incomplete without two things ? my crisp ready-to-devour copy of The Economic Times and my addictive shot of caffeine. So, on a recent visit to the US, deprived of the former, I felt drawn as if by my ancient karma to the city of coffee lovers ? Seattle in the State of Washington. This is after all the birthplace of Starbucks and what is indulgently known as "lattéland". I was not disappointed.

In 1982 the French physicist Alain Aspect conducted an experiment that some people believe is one of the most important scientific events of the 20th century ? one that has the potential to change our entire assessment of reality. Simply put, the experiment provided strong evidence that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantly communicate with each other regardless of whether they were 10 metres or 10 billion kilometres apart. More importantly, it violated Einstein's edict that information can't travel faster than the speed of light; that there can be no "spooky action at a distance" as he put it. The late quantum physicist David Bohm, however, had a different take on it. He proposed that the observed electrons were not actually two separate entities but aspects of the same unity being manifest in altered viewing conditions.

According to an environmental report by World Trends & Forecasts, ambient atmospheric alterations can have some pretty serious biologic and economical repercussions. To take just one example, even a moderate change of climate in Africa could threaten its food supply chain. Rising air temperatures have already altered the flow of deep waters in central Africa's Lake Tanganyika, disrupting the growth of algae and nutrients for the region's most commercially important fish. With a predicted 1.5 degrees Celsius rise in future air temperature, prospects for central Africa's fish supplies are being considered quite bleak.

NEW DELHI: Seafood exports grew by about 22 per cent to $ 170 million (Rs 790.55 crore) in July compared to the same month last fiscal, thanks to increasing demand from markets like Japan and the US. "There has been an increase in demand for black tiger shrimp from Japan. Besides, orders are growing from the US market," an official of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) said. Seafood exports in July 2009 were at $ 139 million.